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Friday, May 4, 2018

You see it everywhere. You see it on this blog. People talk zone running and they inherently talk "Inside Zone" and "Outside Zone". Then you hear some football minds talking, and you might hear "Tight Zone" and "Wide Zone". In many cases, those will be fully synonymous with the former. But they aren't always, and in fact, there can be a small distinction. And what if I told you ('30 for 30' voice) there was something called "Middle Zone", or "Mid Zone" (not to be confused with midline). These are all concepts that exist at certain levels of football. Many coaches will combine these schemes and utilize pre- and post- snap adjustments to bridge the gap. Some will teach only some of them to get really good at those few concepts without having to worry their players about subtle nuance. But some really dedicated coaches will teach all of these concepts. I'm going to give a primer on each of these concepts in this article.

Thursday, May 3, 2018

I’ve previously discussed how Wisconsin utilizes Dos, TightBunch, and Wings in formation to run a lot of Power O, Lead, and Counter plays.
Similarly, they utilize the width of the formation to successfully run a lot of
zone schemes, including both Inside Zone and Outside Zone. In this post, we
will look at the swap boot concept, and then in the next post, we will look at
similar concepts with small tweaks to the setup.

Wednesday, April 11, 2018

I love receivers releasing inside of the offensive EMOL. This
can be done from the RB position after receiving a play fake. It can come from the FB or blocking back (sniffer), where it looks like he is executing a lead block. Or even from a TE aligned inside another TE. In this post, I'm going to explain why this fairly basic design (and not all together new design, but one that is coming back to light), is so effective.

Example of the TE Throwback the Falcons ran in '16 season. 3 TEs in the game. Clear-out over the top. Sneak a guy back across the field. pic.twitter.com/xI6kM7WFHB

Monday, April 9, 2018

Everyone knows about the Post-Wheel route concept. According
to 2016 Twitter and beyond, it has been and continues to be undefeated. The
legitimacy of this claim can be argued, as much as anything can legitimately be
argued on Twitter. Admittedly, it’s a great concept that can be run effectively
with a variety of personnel and from various formations. What I want to show
today is a slight variation of it, that has tons of eye-candy on top of it to
really maximize the effectiveness. This comes from Indiana OC Mike DeBord (as
much as Michigan fans don’t want to believe it). It is the Cross-Wheel combo.

Friday, February 9, 2018

In this post, we'll continue to look at how Wisconsin utilizes the Wing to run Power O. Wisconsin will utilize 12 personnel most often, but will also sprinkle in 11 personnel or even 13 personnel to run this play. And while they can still run a traditional, I-Form Power O, I want to focus specifically on what they do with a TE off the LOS, and how they utilize that as well as anyone in college football to add a blocker from the backside, and insert him at the point of attack.

In this post, we are going to look at how Wisconsin utilizes
the Wing to run Power O. Wisconsin will utilize 12 personnel most often, but
will also sprinkle in 11 personnel or even 13 personnel to run this play. And
while they can still run a traditional, I-Form Power O, I want to focus specifically
on what they do with a TE off the LOS, and how they utilize that as well as
anyone in college football to add a blocker from the backside, and insert him
at the point of attack.

Wednesday, February 7, 2018

As we cover Wisconsin over the next few pieces, we are
predominately going to focus on three formations: Dos (Tight Double Wing),
Tight Bunch, and I-Form. Wisconsin finds ways to use FBs and H-Backs within the
offense, to lead block, to run rubs, or to even to cross flow.

In this post we will first cover the high level benefits of
these formations for Wisconsin. In the next posts, we will go into depth into
specific plays, predominately run out of these formations.